I am hoping one of the guru's can point me to where in the streambaby code the image art is handled. I have the line image: xxx.jpg in the metadata file but it is not in the same folder as the video. I am hoping to add a line to catch the file io exception but do not know where to enter it. I am getting the following error messages (note I added additional output messages)

I am hoping one of the guru's can point me to where in the streambaby code the image art is handled. I have the line image: xxx.jpg in the metadata file but it is not in the same folder as the video. I am hoping to add a line to catch the file io exception but do not know where to enter it. I am getting the following error messages (note I added additional output messages)

Do you have any ability to use the MP4 metadata inside of the MP4 itself? I have been doing that for many years with out an issue. However I know it would require you to apply metadata to all of your movies and use a different process.

For your original question.. The path should up as "/folder/folder/folder/file.jpg" in the error message. You may be able to try using a fully qualified file location in the txt file such as e:/blah/folder/folder.jpg if you are in windows. Another potential gotcha is you may need to use double backslashes, like //folder//folder//image.jpg instead.

Just try a few different things.. Create a few metadata files.. One with the image in the same directory (should work). One with the image in a subdirectory of the movie referenced with a local path.. folder/image.jpg
One with a fully qualified path where the movie lives, etc. Work through those and see what works and what doesn't.

Last few days streambaby and galleon were working great. yesterday Tivo no longer allowed the port to function. Would this be a Tivo upgrade that hit the series 4 Premiere recently or am I looking at something more tight from Brighthouse? I was told the other day my account had a maintenance? Now I am running Windows 7 Home Premium along with Panda Cloud w Firewall. I have multiple ports open, I show no changes on my end. I already reset the Tivo and no change.

Do you have any ability to use the MP4 metadata inside of the MP4 itself? I have been doing that for many years with out an issue. However I know it would require you to apply metadata to all of your movies and use a different process.

For your original question.. The path should up as "/folder/folder/folder/file.jpg" in the error message. You may be able to try using a fully qualified file location in the txt file such as e:/blah/folder/folder.jpg if you are in windows. Another potential gotcha is you may need to use double backslashes, like //folder//folder//image.jpg instead.

Just try a few different things.. Create a few metadata files.. One with the image in the same directory (should work). One with the image in a subdirectory of the movie referenced with a local path.. folder/image.jpg
One with a fully qualified path where the movie lives, etc. Work through those and see what works and what doesn't.

Rick

THANKS Your idea of including the subdirectory name such as ./folder/image.jpg seems to do the trick

I had Streambaby installed as a service and running for months. Windows 7 - 64bit. All of a sudden it stopped working. I see it on showcases and am able to see all my videos but it hangs when I select one. It does work if I run it from the bat file. I have a tivo hd and and elite, it is doing it on both. I tried disabling windows firewall and my antivirus(Kapersky). I tried changing the port in the ini, nothing works. Anyone have any ideas? Weird that it stopped all of a sudden.

I had Streambaby installed as a service and running for months. Windows 7 - 64bit. All of a sudden it stopped working. I see it on showcases and am able to see all my videos but it hangs when I select one. It does work if I run it from the bat file. I have a tivo hd and and elite, it is doing it on both. I tried disabling windows firewall and my antivirus(Kapersky). I tried changing the port in the ini, nothing works. Anyone have any ideas? Weird that it stopped all of a sudden.

Sounds like a permissions issue. Ensure the service is running as a real user that has admin access.

I actually stopped running streambaby as a service and am instead running it as a one time BAT scheduled task on startup. Seems to work a bit more reliably.

Over the last few weeks, I've been updating my XP laptop. First there was a java update that I think stopped streambaby 0.29 from working a few months ago. Its Java 7 update 5. streambaby fails to start as a service with error 1067. I can't find anything that will get this to work. If I browse to the bat file directory and run the start-streambaby-service.bat, that also fails.

Then I removed my old virus scan software for something more current and secure. I went with Avast free and now I think it maybe stopping my pytivo from working. It will work if I restart the laptop but after some time, they stop showing on my tivo menu's. Can anyone help with any of this? I'm having a hard time getting to any of my personal content. They have worked pretty flawlessly for years until recently.

I had Streambaby installed as a service and running for months. Windows 7 - 64bit. All of a sudden it stopped working. I see it on showcases and am able to see all my videos but it hangs when I select one. It does work if I run it from the bat file. I have a tivo hd and and elite, it is doing it on both. I tried disabling windows firewall and my antivirus(Kapersky). I tried changing the port in the ini, nothing works. Anyone have any ideas? Weird that it stopped all of a sudden.

Just wanted to let everyone know that I found the solution to above. It appears to be a Java issue. I was at java 7.5, I backed it off to java 6.10 and everything is working again. Working as a service on both machines.

I installed streambaby on a new iMac running 10.8.0 and it was working fine. I updated to 10.8.1 last week and since then I've been having trouble with it. When I load, it says it's ready an listening, and on the TiVo I can see the Stream Baby Stream menu item but when I click it, it either hangs forever or takes me to the directory and then hangs when I select the directory. Any ideas or suggestions to troubleshoot?

Streababy was working fine for a while. Now, I no longer see it in the Showcases & Apps list. I've added the IP again for my computer running the server and it accepts it, but it never shows up in the list.

I am running the latest version of java and have tried disabling symantec firewall & windows firewall -- still no luck...

I am also having a similar problem with Streambaby and native mp4 files. After I select the video, the program just hangs and never plays. I am running Windows 7. Same problem after rolling back to JRE 6.35. Maybe I will try an even older Java version and see. Very strange. Programs that require encoding play just fine, and some mp4s play while other that did previously no longer stream.

A new version of Streambaby is now available. The program has been updated to provide a search capability based on the metadata files. You can search based on title, actor, writer, director, genre or any combination. The download is here:http://code.google.com/p/streambaby/...20828-2030.zip

Changes consist of:
* Added Search capability
* Changed display of show jpg on play screen to only wait a specified amount of time in case jpg is missing
* Added new config CoverImagesFolder= for specifying folder which contains all show covers

It only looks at txt files such as moviename.mpg.txt However it works with the Med's Movie Manager database so check out Med's movie Manager it has several ways to read in movie information.. You may be in luck the website says "Technical info can also be retrieved from media files like AVI, OGM, MPEG and DVD (ifo)."

Once you create the database (choose HSQLDB for the type) streambaby will be able to read it.

I also have the same problem of Streambaby up and stop working last week. I can start Streambaby but it doesn't seem like Tivo is connecting with it (Just sits there listening). I am able to get it to connect fine on my laptop so it's not my router. I assume something auto updated but I've rolled the Java back to 6 with no luck. Any other ideas?

I assume streambaby shows up as a menu choice. Do you then get a please wait when selecting it? Are you running streambaby on a Windows PC or Linux or Mac?

No, Streambaby does not show up as a menu choice in the Showcase tab. It doesn't seem like it's making a connection with the server. Running on Windows 7. Was working fine up until last week. Works fine on my Windows 7 laptop.

I have also had a problem with this over the past few weeks but found that if I leave streambaby running then by the next day the Tivo finds the app again. Not sure why this is happening or if other apps are having the same problem.

Videos will start fine, but when there is a loud sound like an explosion or somehting, the suido cuts out and won;t come back until I pause and restart. Then after a few times of that, the Tivo will crash and reboot. Any ideas?

EDIT: Solved. Apparently the default setting for the Premiere is to display video as 4:3, thus cropping the video. Changing the setting to letterbox fixed my cropping problem.

I am posting my question before having scanned all 86 pages, but as soon as post my question I shall continue searching for a solution.

Q: Is there a way to control the cropping and\or aspect ratio of the movies while using StreamBaby to an HDTV?

I've only tested a few movies so far, but all the widescreen movies I tried result with significant cropping of the widescreen movies that appear letterbox even on my HDTV. The problem is obvious when watching the opening credits and text is clipped and during scenes where people are opposite sides, and one or both are mostly off screen. When the movie are played back on the PC\Mac, movie has the proper aspect ratio and no cropping occurs.

Maybe its the way that I have been ripping the movies, and if I ripped the movies differently, Steambaby would display the movie without cropping it.

Thanks for any tips.

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Use VideoRedo for editing TiVo files.
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1. Download the file http://code.google.com/p/streambaby/...20828-2030.zip
2. unzip the file. In Linux I do this by opening a terminal server cd to the folder and entering unzip streambaby*2030.zip you should be able to do this from windows by right clicking and then selecting extract all
3. stop the currently running streambaby
4. Start streambaby - from linux I do this by
cd str*2030
sudo ./streambaby